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Īmong the scenes which were filmed for the episode but cut before broadcast are an opening scene in which Elaine tries to refill her coffee at Monk's herself, and the ending scene, in which it is revealed that Jerry's van was purchased by Jack, who refurbishes it as a Nobody Beats the Wiz van and takes Elaine on a date in it, loudly introducing her to prospective customers as 'Lady Wiz'. The character David Puddy jokingly suggests that Elaine might fall in love with the Maytag Repairman both of the actors who had played the Maytag Repairman up to this time, Jesse White and Gordon Jump, had appeared in earlier episodes of Seinfeld.

The Postmaster General in the episode, Henry Atkins, is a fictional character the real Postmaster General at the time the episode was produced was Marvin T. Spike Feresten wrote 'The Junk Mail' largely as an expression of his frustration at getting Pottery Barn catalogs in his mailbox on a near daily basis. She tries to settle for Jack, but to her dismay, he quits his fact-checking job so that he can appear in The Wiz commercials again. Once confronted with this, Elaine wants Puddy back, but he rejects her. He realizes that Elaine's 'love at first sight' experience is actually her remembering this commercial. While going through an old VHS tape, Jerry discovers a commercial that features Jack as ' The Wiz', a mascot for the electronics store of the same name. His parents give him a ' the birds and the bees' talk, only traumatizing him further.Įlaine has a ' love at first sight' encounter with fact-checker Jack, and breaks up with David Puddy so she can date him. Upon seeing this, Frankie and Jerry agree to sell the van, while George is traumatized. They and George and Rhisa see the van rocking they open it up and see the Costanzas having sex. Jerry reconciles with Frankie and helps him out of the hole. Frankie yells 'Is this Seinfeld's van?! Seinfeld's van!', which George mistakes as ' Son of Sam', running away in fear.

George parks the van in front of Frankie's hole.

Jerry searches Central Park for Frankie, who has gone to dig a hole and sit in it. When he hears that his parents are borrowing the van, George schemes to make out with Rhisa in it so his parents will catch them when they pick it up. However, Rhisa agrees to the relationship and insists on keeping it secret. George sexually propositions his cousin Rhisa to force his parents to get involved in his life. When George confronts them about this, they tell him they are cutting him loose. George's parents make up excuses to cut him short on his weekly phone call and leave the house when he visits. He says to Kramer, 'Tell the world my story.”

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Postmaster General Henry Atkins intimidates Kramer into receiving his mail again as he leaves, Newman is led in with a bucket over his head and his hands zip tied together. Kramer ignores Newman's warnings, and is abducted. Jerry refuses, but Kramer nonetheless tells Frankie that Jerry sold him the van, uses it to launch an anti-postal campaign, and loans it to George's parents. Kramer offers Anthony Quinn's old T-shirt as a trade for the van. Jerry takes out a classified ad to sell the van. Jerry does not want the van, but is afraid to refuse it, since Frankie is very emotionally fragile. Jerry's childhood friend Frankie Merman gets Jerry a new van as a thank you for a show he did for Frankie's car dealership. Newman refuses and warns him that there is a conspiracy at work. Kramer goes to the post office to stop his mail. Increasingly frustrated at his volume of junk mail, Kramer bricks up his mailbox, but the postman just stuffs his mail into Jerry's mailbox. Kramer gets an overabundance of Pottery Barn catalogs, which he saves up and angrily dumps at their local store. Produced when e-mail was becoming a mainstream form of communication, the episode reflected the popular prediction of the time that postal service would soon become obsolete. In this episode, Jerry is gifted a van by a childhood friend and cannot turn it down for fear of hurting his feelings, Elaine mistakenly thinks she has fallen in love when the sight of a man triggers memories of an old commercial he appeared in, and Kramer, tired of getting swamped with junk mail, tries to stop all delivery of his mail, only to uncover a conspiracy by the United States Postal Service to keep the public from realizing that mail is pointless. It was the fifth episode of the ninth and final season. ' The Junk Mail' is the 161st episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. Renee McClellan as Post Office Customer (uncredited).Ruth Cohen as Ruthie Cohen (uncredited).Wilford Brimley as Postmaster General Henry Atkins.5th episode of the ninth season of Seinfeld ' The Junk Mail'